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Author Jennifer Wright on how abortionist Madame Restell got rich in the 1800s — before she was driven to suicide

Author previously approved similar edits for the US publication of ‘Live and Let Die’

Rich in detail, this award-winning debut explores the evolution of Spanish womanhood through drudgery, dictatorship and liberation

A Kensington Palace staff member has recalled Meghan Markle's reaction to royal life in Tom Quinn's new book, Gilded Youth An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family

French Diplomat Maurice Gourdault-Montagne's memoirs are unlike those of any regular ambassador that fill French libraries year after year. The author of “The Others Don’t Think Like Us” is no ordinary ambassador. Now retired, his long diplomatic career took him to Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin and London. He was France’s sherpa…

In a meticulously researched new book, the lives of five literary wives are examined and the often abusive relationships they found themselves in

Fleming and Dahl’s books are at the centre of a furore over censorship and outdated language. ‘Cancel-proofing’ makes sense from a cynical business perspective, writes Louis Chilton – but it lets everybody off the hook far too easily

Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking